Aylo, the company that owns porn sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, is planning to suspend service in France in protest of a new law that will require porn companies to verify the age of visitors. The deadline for porn sites to implement age verification is June 7 but Pornhub will block users starting Wednesday, June 4, according to France24.

Websites will be required to verify a user’s age using a credit card or a government-issued ID document. France’s law requires porn companies to provide an option for age verification that relies on a third party, hypothetically protecting the user’s privacy. But Aylo has argued that third-party verification puts private information at risk of hacks and leaks.

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    I’m sure the editor who wrote that headline got a good giggle out of that.

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      Oh they did. Having worked as an editor in a newsroom I can assure you that the cheeky headline is never, ever accidental and the person who wrote it is always, always stroking themselves over how clever they are. They live for this shit.

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    Requiring sites to verify users without presenting them with a digital solution to do that is wild

    You cannot tell people that they should send copies of their ID to random porn sites lmao

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    govts should stop making unenforceable laws

    like the French govgt shouldn’t even be considering making something like this if the website can just pull out of the country and still get all the traffic with vpns and tor

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      Governments are using these kind of things to distract people from the reality that the world is starting to boil over, the right wing has control, and the rich are becoming even richer to prepare for the inevitable climate apocalypse. They use things like same-sex marriage, abortion, pornography, drugs, tariffs, taxes, and all of those other fun things that people love to scream and yell about.

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        There’s been a meme going around America lately that we need to take some inspiration from our French cousins. But it sounds like they need to find some more of that fire themselves if this is the state of things (I’m also including the smoking ban the article mentions)

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    Too late France is already pregnant!

    Serious note the only way to fight these laws is to make the ip addresses of visitors publicly available.

    Watch as every high profile person suddenly switches position

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      I know nothing of their ethics, but PornHub looking like it’s made for a 2009 iPhone will always steer me to Xvideos

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    Fake ass protectionism. IDs is just a way to have the government spy on your private sexual preferences. Any kid can see porn if they want to. This doesn’t stop shit. Porn can be pirated and it’s accessible in other countries with a VPN. This bullshit law is nothing but a way for the government to invade privacy.